dennis. >> thanks, rob. i know you're all here because you want actually not to hear about the middle east but you want to hear about how i'm approaching bracketology these days with the ncaas. anybody who would really like to know who is going to win, you will have to ask me later. what i thought i would do is provide a kind of a frame analysticly for this visit by the president to the region. i think the way to do it is to start by saying the context for this trip is dramaticly different from the context that shaped the president's first trip to the middle east in june of 2009. at that time, i think that the mindset was based upon giving a speech, shaped around a set of assumptions that really grew out of things that the president had said during the campaign. he had announced that he was going to take a trip to the middle east. or at least he announced he was going to give a speech in a muslim-majority country and i think what was guiding that was a set of perception that at least were believed to be held